Posted on 04/11/2002 2:47:21 PM PDT by catonsville
Leaving Stalin out of it for the moment, didn't Hitler exterminate vast numbers of people based on their religion?
Could not being Jewish be considered a cause of death in Germany in 1940?
It's all semantics. I do believe my point was understood well enough.
Too bad you didn't say much. But neither did your article. Refute what I said with some facts (facts? we don't need no steenkin facts!). I suppose Lenin, Stalin and Mao were religious too. The sorry fact is all horrors (I have no use for that kind of horror either) done in the name of religion are miniscule compared to the ones done in the name of atheism or non-religion and their dogmas of "brotherhood"
Equating occultism with religion would mean every idea is a religious idea.
Without definition you have no argument. Along with John Lennon you can "Imagine there's no nothing"
LOL, spoken like a true ideologue.
You're confusing the issue, and you know it. People being killed because of their religion is not in the same category as people being killed in the name of religion - and hardly a condemnation of religion. It is a condemnation of those who hate God, which illustrates my point. Far more people have been killed in the name of atheist regimes than in the name of God.
That's the craziest thing I've ever read on FR. By the same reasoning, all crimes can be blamed on the victims. Really twisted thinking.
I may be confusing the issue but I am attempting to clarify my point since almost everyone that replied to me seemed to think I stated that people were killed, as you say, "in the name of religion".
That's not what I stated. I made no distinction between the two categories. That may be seen as intentionally misleading or disingenuous, but I know full well that far more people have died by other means than being killed in the name of religion.
Besides, my original comment was an attempt to paraphrase George Carlin and was meant to be facetious anyway.
There. Hope that clears it up.
This is too easy. Would you care to point out exactly where I said discussion of religion should be prohibited? Please quote the exact line, if you can. :)
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Please explain how this means anything towards our topic.
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